So Nagin has outsourced his city's drug and crime problem

[sasha031]

I just heard him on CNN say drug addicts do not dare to come back for he has the National Guard, Army and police behind him. How convenient for him, instead of addressing the problem ignore it and ship it off somewhere else.
To me he sounds like a repuke if I ever heard one.

[blm]

1. It certainly sounds like deals have been made - BushInc wanted to be able

to go into American cities with the military, and they are using New Orleans to set that precedent.

Funny that the biggest arms and drug dealers in the world are Poppy Bush and his Pakistani mafia and BCCI cronies.

[Cleita]

11. Don't forget Jebby and Georgy running cocaine to Miami in their

days of "youthful indiscretion".

[ClintonTyree]

2. He IS a Republican, you know?

He registered in the Democratic Party so he'd be on the ballot versus the white elite "approved" Republican candidate. He's a DINO. Once the Republican virus is in your blood stream, it takes a long damned time to kill it.

[sasha031]

4. never kill it

he turned Dem just so he could take over a democratic city, think it was the WSJ that claimed he was furnaced by the rich in NO.

[Bridget Burke]

5. He financed his own campaign.

Nagin had been a successful businesman.

[CottonBear]

10. He was a $400,000/year Comcast Cable executive & a * contributor.

I would bet that he stays off the Repub reservation for good after his awful Katrina experience. I like him. He was put in such a desperate situation that he was forced to speak the unvarnished truth.

[firefox]

3. I thought he was a lifelong Republican

I thought he changed parties just for the election because he knew he did not have a chance under the Republican banner.

[CottonBear]

6. Any drug addicts in NO are probably out of drugs by now.

Last week (or the week before), Nagin said that many of the "looters" and people shooting guns were probably "jonesing" for a hit or a pill of whatever they're addicted to. It makes sense. I don't think he outsourced anyone on purpose. It was an unintended consequence of the evacaution and flooding and subsequen events. Believe me, there are plenty of drug addicts to be found in every city and state in our nation.

[Bridget Burke]

12. The ones in Houston are getting treatment...

When Dr. Avrim Fishkind received an early-morning call to help turn a slab of concrete in the Reliant Astrodome into a medical clinic, he knew part of that task would be assisting substance abusers experiencing withdrawals from days without drugs or alcohol.

Since thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims began arriving at the clinic two weeks ago, Fishkind estimates 30 percent to 50 percent have needed substance-abuse treatment.

www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3354688

Louisiana's drug (& alcohol) treatment facilities were overloaded before the storm. And Houston's facilities were strained, as well. But the medical folks are working on the problem.

[CottonBear]

13. That is great news. Houston is doing a great job! n/t

[Bridget Burke]

7. Is there a transcript of his exact comments?

The police in New Orleans weren't able to eradicate drugs in New Orleans (or anywhere else) in the past. The NG & the Army won't be there forever.

[sasha031]

9. probably not so soon

I heard it on the Situation Room about 1/2hr ago

[CottonBear]

8. Link please. n/t

[sasha031]

14. sorry

It was on TV, Blitzer showed a press conference with Nagin speaking,

I went to CNN but there is nothing up about it.

I am so glad addicts are getting treatment in Texas.